Originally Posted by
tyrion
There was an interesting problem recently discovered, I think with a google car: a bicyclist was stopped at an intersection but didn't have his feet down, so technically he wasn't stopped, he was moving slightly to maintain balance. The car interpreted this as a bike moving towards the intersection, so stopped and waited for the bike to cross. And waited. And waited. And waited...
Yep. And the car erred on the side of caution. Just what I'd hope it would do when faced with an unfamiliar scenario. They've no doubt used that incident to improve the programming.
Autonomous car luddites like to hold up any minor occurrence as evidence they are unsafe, when what we should be focusing on is whether they are more or less safe than human drivers on a per-mile basis. And it's not even close.